A LARGE (nearly two feet tall) book celebrating the beauty of Tahitian men.

Of course, all these books are FULL of great photos.
In fact, the "Women of Polynesia" book is SO AMAZING, I'm going to do a bunch of scans
from it as a separate post. Full of mid-20th century exotic types, some nudes as well. A very odd book, it attempts to be somewhat scientific or anthropological in it's texts, interspersed with "Polynesian photographic studies."
It's a gem....

Kaiwaza- totally jealous of your Library booksale scores! That is some great stuff. I have never seen the Women of Polynesia book (but now I need it!) but I have other books by that author. The South Pacific Dance book I actually got in a bookstore on Oahu.

How is the Friends booksale? I have actually thought about planning a visit when it is going on.

Not sure what to think but we were on a garage sale tour on the weekend and came across a estate sale. We seemed to been lucky they last couple trips finding misc for out tiki bar. When we went downstairs of the sale we were shocked to find a pre 70s tiki room/ bar that the sellers parents had set up. We didn't know if it would be bad karma stealing from such an old collection but we new it was going to the right place. We ended up getting a hanging bamboo chair, swag lamps, an amazing picture of the coco palms lagoon, mugs, tapa cloth, and other hand painted cloths and tiki material. Cost us $80. Finding this much at once in Alberta doesn't happen but it is amazing to see a tiki bar from the late 60s early 70s just a couple blocks down from us

On 2014-07-27 09:13, Tiare wrote:Kaiwaza- totally jealous of your Library booksale scores! That is some great stuff. I have never seen the Women of Polynesia book (but now I need it!) but I have other books by that author. The South Pacific Dance book I actually got in a bookstore on Oahu.

How is the Friends booksale? I have actually thought about planning a visit when it is going on.

Denise

Tiare,
THe booksale is, in my mind, fantastic almost beyond belief. It's an entire high school cafeteria...literaly thousands upon thousands of books. I have no idea where they all come. They cover all categories. The Hawaii/Pacific area is GREAT, but I suspect alot of the really COOL stuff (i.e. kitschy or primarily romanticized photography) probably goes out the first day. I went on Day one this year and got major scores. But I've always found things in the Hawaii section no matter when I went...it runs a full week and they add new stuff everyday as they can't FIT it all in the cafeteria. I don't know if it's worth planning a trip to Hawaii just for it, but you certainly could plan a trip around those dates & get into the sale on Day one...And ship few boxes of books back media rate..much cheaper than trying to get it in your luggage! I play mostly jazz music at the espresso bar I work part time in and I bought about 40 CDs there at $3 or less each to burn on my ipod. I usually go a few times during the week & spend, maybe 3 hours there every time. Gotta scan some things from that Women of polynesia book, but I'm thinking I might better post them under the "nudity" post.
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